Nothing like moving a few pieces of furniture around to shift perspective. My office was starting to feel stagnant so Sunday I came in to reevaluate. I moved my desk and the shelves. Even the printer table found a new home. It was like a magic trick. My office...
I'm playing with a new habit these days: The JUST SAY NO habit. It's an experiment to build up my "No" muscle which has atrophied over the past 18 months. Like the rest of the world, I didn't have much to say no to (aside from Netflix and zoom cocktails). Now I'm...
When’s the last time you craved approval? I’m not referring to an official type of approval, like from a bank for your mortgage, or from a client for your project to move forward. I’m talking about someone else seeing you and giving you that ‘ya done good, kid’ pat...
How’s your newly unmasked life going? At the beginning of the pandemic, it took us more than a minute to figure out how to communicate beyond our masks. We learned to speak up and enunciate. We got “smizing” down. On the flip side, masks offered us a place to...
When people ask me how I'm doing lately, my response is: "I'm changing gears." With life opening up at what feels like an exponential rate, some days I'm barely keeping up. It feels like the time I learned how to drive stick on the Chicago Speedway. I had under a...
Happy Birthday to me! This month as I turn 50, I've been reflecting more than usual on what's important to me. This includes permission to feel the full range of human emotions and allow them to guide us into action that supports our values and the impact we want...
Today I drove through a toll gate barrier. Yup. The Mazdarati busted right through it. Nope, I wasn’t on the run from the law. Exiting 94 in Indiana, I just didn’t see it. The sun glared blending the barrier right into the highway. My foot came off the gas just...
It was my pleasure to be featured in Authority Magazine for their series on Emotional Intelligence: What it Is; Why it is so Essential; How We Can Increase it. Here are five tips I share on growing your Emotional Intelligence: Hit the pause button. Stop before you...
If we want results, we need space. Space to think. Space to work. Space to dream. Space to create. So what do we do now? How do we cope when everything happens in the same space all of the time? Here's how I've been doing it in my space:...
This is the second in a series of five blog posts on the key components of Emotional Intelligence: Self Perception, Self Expression, Interpersonal Relationships, Decision Making and Stress Management. In our last blog post, we spoke about Self Perception. Today...
